Introduction

Abstract

This introduction endeavours to not only introduce Cavarero’s work, but to also chart the journey by which Cavarero, Butler, and Honig have initiated and sustained an increasingly productive dialogue to bring together what at first were perceived to be radically divergent positions. It captures the collaborative but provocative spirit of the inspirational scholarly friendship between Butler, Honig, and Cavarero, brought together in their contestation of the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.